Dreams...Meaningful or Meaningless

Dear Amyaeric, I am a regular dreamer and hardly I spent any night without dreams! Yes, there are two schools of thoughts prevailing about the believing the fact that these dreams have any significance in one's life! The first school believes that the dreams carry some meaning and they interpret the dreams and correlate with day to day affairs! There are many professionals available at various places including on line ones! There are many books available to interpret these dreams. The second group believes that dreams are just subconscious thoughts emerge out during the process of sleep and there is nothing much about it! I am a science graduate, in fact I am a Veterinary surgeon practicing for race horses and I don't believe in interpretation of dreams. In my opinion many a times though we have some subconscious thoughts in our dreams but many a times we dream very funny things with no relevance! But however I believe in one thing that our brain can't dream a thing which is not known to it! Like you can never dream about the place or a person about which or whom you have no idea at all! Like a person from America who has never seen Ostrich or doesn't have any idea about this bird can never see this bird in his dream. Similarly a typical country side Indian who lives in Villages can never dream about Disney Land as he never have experienced it or heard about it! My wife can't dream the I am dreaming about my horses and he technical matters about them just because she hardly know about my field! Thus in my opinion dreams are just a haphazard feelings expressed by our brain which has some experience about the things which we are seeing in the dream. Yes, I have my own doubts about the dreams too! I many a times get to see people whom I never recall to have seen them anywhere before But still I am seen interacting with them in my dreams! Who are people? are they imaginary creations of my mind! Another thing I have noted is that I wake up immediately if I am trying to do any thing in my dreams which I never like to do in my real life! That means the brain is having its control on the subconscious thought too! Does it want to imply something about our personality or feelings through these dreams? Thus I don't believe in the interpretation of the dreams , I frankly admit that there are many grey areas left which requires lot of research before arriving to any conclusion! Thanks for the discussion, I liked partcipating in it!

Dreams are meaningful,I have heard that a person is able to predict the future.So dreams are meaningful.There are so many examples of dreams bing come true.But no one don't know who dreams do come true.

Well I take the stance that dreams are meaningless. They are merely products of the imagination or the brain sorting through old memories or the like. I've been interested in dreams my whole life and I did lots of research into dream interpretation once upon a time. But the more I read up, the more I asked the experts, the more I felt like dream interpretation was about as helpful as horoscopes and palm readings. I still love dreams and researching about them and what they mean to different people and cultures but I no longer believe they have any significant symbolic, subconscious, or prophetic meaning.

I believe they are meaningful because i believe them to be the gate ways to our true self and what things we are faced with and how to over come problems which have stopped us in life. I also think some people (like my friend) have been gifted with the power to dream of the future. I believe this because my friend has had many dreams that have come true. It sounds like a crazy suggestion but i actually believe everything i say here.

I definitely believe that most dreams are meaningful. Having had a few dreams that have come true, I'm convinced of their importance. Yes, a scant few may be caused by sounds you hear while asleep or the food you ate/book you read before bedtime. But the majority of dreams tell us about the choices we could or should make, warn us about impending danger or bad decisions we've made. They can encourage us to explore new talents and abilities. Some dreams are communications from spirits who may be family, friends, Guardian Spirits, or even our Angels. Sometimes dreams are prophetic. Sometimes humorous to make us laugh and de-stress. Dreams are often memories of forgotten activities in the astral or dream state. A number of things can be presented to us in the dream state. Even God communicates with some of us while we sleep . . . .

i think it is very meaningful because it gives you a kind of ambition to go on with you're life

For me dream is meaningful if it inspires you, it made you smile or motivates you, if it doesn't show bad omen, as long as it is positive. Beware of dreams because it can sometimes kill us.

I believe that -dreams can be meaningful, they are a way our subconsious mind speak to us, there are lots of histories about people who, following one of their dreams found or discover something, or, got away from some danger. They are also, like a pressure relieve, from our mind, that try to organize all the feelings and thinking we do during the day.

I think that a lot of our dreams are just thoughts and feelings that we might have gone through with during the course of the day, and we can't read something into every single one of our dreams because it might just be something as simple as a conversation that we had overheard on the train or something like that. However, we should pay at least a little bit of attention to our dreams because we can sometimes realise when we keep dreaming about things over and over again that they're things that we had been worrying about that we hadn't even noticed. Our dreams can help to open our eyes to things that are wrong when we didn't even know (or think) that there was anything wrong in the first place.

Dreams are rather what we make of them. Which means in the end, they are only about as meaningful as we interpret them as. There are going to be many times where a dream is just that, merely a dream. There are many times where in the end, there might be some deeper meaning or just rather be just some subconscious way of our minds solving some problem. But are there times where we rather tend to see more meaning in some things, meaning that is often times not really there. We tend to see what we really want to see, dream what we want to dream and in the end, we can never be for certain what is really there in our minds. But in the end, a dream is just something that we can make anything out of it we wish.

Dreams are the ones which tells us about the thoughts and likes of our inner mind. Most of the dreams reflect the same but there are some which are meaning less. According to our ancient belief, it said that the things which we see the day time comes true and most of the dreams which i had seen during those time had happned in my life.

Dreams are meaningful to some extent. I feel they either describe what you might face in the future or what you are going through currently, they are symbolic. Personally, I don't remember my dreams the next morning unless they were really weird or unusual. In such cases, they could mean a combination of things in your life. My wife, on the other hand, remembers her dreams & in certain cases, they do kinda show what has happened as well as what might happen. I find myself utterly amazed when she explains some of her dreams to me...

sometimes i feel that dreams has a meaning, but on the other hand i felt the dream was just a flower bed...

I believe that some dreams are very meaningful. I do not know how to interpret them, however there have been times in my life where a dream forewarned me about something. At the same token, I have also had some dreams that had absolutely no relevance to anything in my life. So, I believe they can be both as meaningful as well as meaningless.